Friends Drive Away After Man Robs Orlando Motel

AROUND CENTRAL FLORIDA - BRIEFS

September 26, 1991

A man promising to repay money to his friends held up an Orlando motel Wednesday while his stunned companions sat outside.

Deputies are looking for the man, whose name was not released. They said the man asked his friends to give him a ride to the Days Inn at 650 Lee Road, saying he knew someone there who would give him the money.

The man entered the lobby at 8 p.m. and robbed the clerk of $500 with a semiautomatic handgun, said Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Doug Sarubbi.

When the man walked outside with the gun in hand, his friends drove away without him.

The man's friends then returned to the motel and gave police a description of their friend.

He is described as a white male, 22 years old, 6 feet tall, 190 pounds with brown, bushy hair.